Best NZ Left, Independent and Progressive Political opinion daily reading list

Because so much of the mainstream media is polluted by right wing free market ideologues pushing corporate interests:

TDB daily collates the best NZ Left Wing, Independent and Progressive Political Opinion and includes the best international voices.

Unlike Victoria University’s The Democracy Project, this will never be behind a Paywall because we don’t believe in citizens with two classes of information.

DOMESTIC:

RNZ – Abuse in care survivors hikoi to Parliament ahead of report release

The Kaka by Bernard Hickey – ‘Let’s build a motorway costing $100 million per km, before emissions costs’

Newsroom – Govt takes blame, will apologise to children abused and tortured in state care

WaateaNews – Boot camp plan bad science says iwi

No Right Turn – A tougher line on “proactive release”?

Gavin Ellis – It takes more than global chaos to change the front page

Against the Current – Joe Biden: the candidate The Democratic PartyVoters didn’t want

The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: John Luxton – Prosperity Gospel – Hypocrisy Defined

The Daily Blog – And then this Government came for public health

The Daily Blog – What if it’s actually worse with Shane Jones and Casey Costello than we think it is?

The Daily Blog – Watch how quickly this government expands anti-gang patch laws to Environmental protesters

The Daily Blog – National’s ‘Penk Bats’ will freeze the poor and see more deaths and illness

The Daily Blog – Why are we bombing the poorest country in the middle east again?

INTERNATIONAL:

The Intercept – THE ISRAELI ARMY WARNED THEM ABOUT THE WRONG BUILDING. THEN AN AIRSTRIKE KILLED THREE JOURNALISTS.

Crikey – Kamala Harris, the least-worst candidate in a contest of the terrible

Jacobin – Twilight of the Woke

The Washington Post – Historic flood of cash pours into Harris campaign and allied groups

Caitlin Johnston – Gaza Is The Single Defining Feature Of This Political Moment In The US

Harretz – Analysis | Biden Has Let the Israel-sanctions Genie Out of the Bottle

The Guardian – Kamala Harris vows US not going back to ‘chaos’ of Trump years in rally speech